In this video, I’ll show you a brand new free keyword research tool for Amazon KDP that’ll replace a lot of the paid ones. And that is a free Chrome extension by Co-author. Co-author is my software that I’ve developed for Amazon KDP specifically. And my goal is to make this the best Amazon KDP software that is truly all-in-one. So, you really only need this one software to do the entire keyword research as well as creating the book. So, if you’ve been watching my videos for a while, you know that I’ve talked about co-author often, and we obviously have a paid subscription as well if you want other features. But recently, we came up with a 100% free Chrome extension that you can use that’ll help you a lot with keyword research. So, let me show you how that works. First, I’ll leave a link to this page in the description. All you have to do is go here and add it to Chrome and you can start using it. So, once you add it to your extensions list, it’ll show up here. And when you search anything on Amazon, you’ll start seeing this. So what co-author does is it pulls the BSR of the book. BSR is the sales rank that Amazon shows you. But typically you have to open the book on another page, scroll down to see this number. Well, you don’t have to do that. Saves you a lot of time because it’ll show right on the search results here. And based on the BSR, it’ll calculate how many sales it’s making per day. And based on that, as well as the page length, the format, like is it a hard cover, paperback, they will have different profit margins, right? So based on that, it’ll calculate roughly how much it’s making per day. So, as you can see, this book is doing up to $1,000 per day in royalties. The next thing it does is that it also expands the search suggestion here. So, when you type anything here, you will see keywords before, meaning, you know, relevant keywords to what you typed in with variations of having additional words before. So, since I typed in coloring book, it’s giving us like adult coloring book, advanced coloring book, beginner coloring books for toddlers, right? Gives you a lot more ideas. Even gives you the search volume here. We have the keywords after. So, you know, variations of what you typed in, but now we have additional words after the main keyword. And then we have keywords between. So, it just gives you a lot more ideas. Another thing I want to note is that with other softwares, they usually have a limit on how much information you can pull with the free Chrome extensions that they have. But with co-author, we don’t have a limit. So, you can basically, you know, use this unlimited amounts of time. The next thing you can do, in my opinion, is one of the the most powerful feature here is the BSR trend. So this book, Little Spooky, it is obviously a Halloween or kind of a spooky theme. So I can assume that it’s going to get a sales boost during Halloween or October. But instead of guessing now, you can confirm based on data. So you can click on BSR trend here and sort it by 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, and all time. Right? So this book has been around for 2 years, and you can see exactly what months of the year it gets a significant spike in sales. And I was correct. The biggest spike that they had was during October, which makes sense because people buy spooky books leading up to Halloween. Then it dropped a little bit. Then it got a little boost in January. I don’t know why. And then it went up to once again the next year around October, it got a second boost. And now this is the third year approaching October. And sales is climbing again. So this is three years in a row. Every single time that they’re getting a massive sales boost during October. That tells us that if we are going to create a spooky coloring book similar to this, we should probably launch this book 2 months before October because we know that we want to capitalize on October, we want to launch it a little bit earlier and we can start collecting reviews, ranking the book on page one. So typically you do that a few months ahead, right? So you want to launch this maybe August, which means we have to start creating the book maybe July, you know? So that’s kind of how you can calculate and time your launch. But a Halloween coloring book is kind of an obvious example. So let me show you another example here which is a vision board book. So this book has been around for 2 years almost 3 years. If we take a look at the BSR trend as you can see this is a very very clear spike happening in January which makes sense right vision board books typically gets a huge sales spike in January new year new me type of thing. So what does that tell you? If you’re going to create a vision board and if you’re going to launch a vision board book you should probably launch the book around October, November. you definitely don’t want to launch the book in May or something like that. So, this data in my opinion is super useful. Really giving you confirmation on what topic you should go into at what months and timing the launch. You can also use this data to see if the topic is evergreen or if it’s just a trending topic, right? If you see a huge spike in sales at a certain month and then it just dies off, then you know that’s a very very trendheavy keyword. And there are other keywords that are very steady all year round. And if you’re looking for a more steady income, like you want to build a business not chasing trends, but you know, you want to hit up evergreen keywords, then you can get that information this way. By the way, you can open up the book Get to the Product Page, and you will see the exact same information right here. Now, there’s another cool thing you can do here, and that is by clicking on create your competitive edge on this topic. Now, this button is the same if you would click on analyze book. So, whether you click on analyze book from the search results page or this button to the product page, it leads to the same step. But basically what happens if you click on it is that it opens up co-author and co-author will start analyzing this book. It’ll start reading the hundreds of reviews this book has in this case. It’ll start analyzing other books in this niche and it’ll use a framework that we train co-author on to give you different positioning ideas. So you get three different positioning ideas you can regenerate here. But it gives you ideas on how you can create your version of a vision board book so that you can stand out in the market. Right? Because what you don’t want to do is just rip off an existing book and make the exact same thing. What you want to do is to model success, right? You see vision board is working. So you create your own vision board book. So you’re still within the vision board category, but you want to do something a little bit different than your competition. That is how you can stand out and that’s how you can make a lot of money. So the question is how do you come up with these unique ideas on how to position your books? Well, co-author will give you some ideas. So this is what we got. The first idea is just more value. So doing the same thing but offering more. So, this one is 1,200 plus easy to cut single-sided elements. And it explains the thought process here. So, the positioning angle is that most clip art books print double-sided to save on print cost, forcing users to sacrifice one image to cut out another. This book offers 1,200 plus unique single-sided elements. So, every single graphic can be used. And so, it’s offering more value because this book is 600 plus images. We have 1,200 plus images as well. Talks about why it fits the market and what it includes. Gives you ideas on what you should put here. There’s another idea to niche down into a specific audience, which is a very good idea. People already do this in the vision board space, but co-author is giving you that suggestion as well. Is that vision board clip art book with words, quotes, and pictures for men. You can do the same thing with for women, for kids, for seniors, for moms, dads, so many ways. So, since this is for men, it adjusted the subtitle. Manifest success and build your legacy with 800 plus ready to cut masculine style images. I don’t know if you want to put masculine style images maybe, but these are just ideas here. The positioning angle here, the vision board market is heavily saturated with floral feminine coded designs. Men who wants to practice visualizations are left with options that do not match their personal style specific goals. Makes sense. So that’s another way. And in the niche end goal vision board clip art book with words, quotes, and pictures. Manifest financial abundance and career success without lifestyle fluff. So this is a vision board specifically for people who want to manifest money and career success, right? not the other stuff which typically with these vision boards it just gives you a bunch of stuff that you can manifest. So this is more of a focus topic here and from here if you like any of these ideas you can click on start creating this book and it’ll take you to the guided bookflow page. Actually I’ll just show you. So you click on it’ll take you to building your research step and from here you can walk through the guided book flow that we have. Basically just goes step by step and you can go from research all the way to creating the book to description book cover A+ content trailer formatting everything. Now the disclaimer here is that to go through the guided book flow if you want to move forward beyond the differentiation step it will require one book credit and that is not free. You do have to pay for it. So you either get that book credit through a subscription plan or if you want to buy the book credit allocart you can do so as well but either way it’ll require book credit. However everything that I showed you up to the getting the ideas on positioning those are free. Another disclaimer that I want to give you because I wasn’t really thinking about this earlier is that the way you create vision board books is like you just get a bunch of stock images and you compile it and these are colored images. It’s not really non-fiction or medium content. Although you can kind of count this as medium content. The way you create it is just a bunch of images. So it’s not really suited for co-author. So I’ll be completely honest, co-author cannot create a book like this because you’re just compiling images. But if you are trying to create normal non-fiction books, children’s story books, medium content books like coloring books, puzzle books, guided journals, those kind of things, then you can do so inside co-author. So this is the dashboard that you will see if you do have a co-author paid subscription. So you’re not going to get this with the Chrome extension. Okay? So I just want to show you if you do choose to move forward with the paid subscription. If you want to go beyond the free one, I want to show you what are the features that you get. So within the research features that we have, we have reverse asin lookup kind of similar to Cerebro from Helium 10. So we have that. It’ll replace Helium 10 keyword scout. It’ll replace the other keyword research tools. Niche Hunter is super powerful. So you can basically filter through the entire Amazon bookstore and find whatever book that you want to find. So let’s say I want to find self-published book only within the crafts, hobbies, and home category selling as a paperback book that’s selling a lot. So, let’s say 30,000 BSR or below with only 20 reviews. So, I want to find books that are doing really well, making a lot of money with very low competition because it doesn’t have a lot of reviews. You can do additional filters like it’s been around for minimum this long or max this long. But just like that, you have these books that matches the criteria here, right? So, we have spooky girl culling book from Coco Real 17 reviews doing $14,000 per month. You can look at the BSR history from here. You can open up the book on Amazon and you can go into the analyze competitive advantage step just like how I showed you. We have a bold and easy coloring book for nails which is interesting new idea. Here we have autumn coloring book, Halloween coloring book, emotional support calling book for stressed out football fans. Very interesting, super niche, but it’s doing well with just three reviews. Another keyword right there. So literally within seconds, right, you have a ton of new ideas you can go into. And from here it’ll take you straight into the book creation process. So that is a niche hunter. I basically only use this to get new keyword ideas. I don’t really go through Amazon and do it manually anymore. And in terms of the create section, you can create different book types. So you have the normal non-fiction books, but you can do the journals and notebooks, planners, puzzles and activities, a bunch of different ones like word search, sudoku, crosswords. You got the story books, the coloring books, and specialty books like guest book workbooks. And we’re adding more. You have the manuscript editor, the angle finder, the title generator, the outline generator, creating the author persona, author bio, formatting the document, and even translating the book into different languages. Then in the design category, we have the cover generator, which is super powerful. These are some designs that I’ve created myself and this looks really nice in my opinion. You can also create A+ content, which once you’re done, it’ll generate A+ content blocks like these that you can upload straight to Amazon. Then we have the book trailers section where you can create amazing book trailers like this one. I’ll play one as an example.
It’s literally called 5 minutes social confidence and it teaches you to stop freezing when pressure hits. I don’t think it’s recording the internal audio but this is an influencer style video right. You have others like cinematic and you know a lot more. And we have the image studio. So this is essentially going to replace Canva. It has a lot of pretty complicated editing thing that I don’t even understand myself. My team just added this and I’m like, damn, that’s pretty advanced. But if you’re like, you know, into Photoshop, if you want to edit your cover in a more like advanced way, then we have this feature. All right, so if you’re interested in any of these features that are in the paid subscription plan and if you’re curious about the pricing, I’ll leave a link to co-author website in the description so you can check this out yourself. But essentially, we have three different plans. The pro plan comes with three book credits, and that’s the main difference is you get access to all the same features, but you get more book credits and more design credits. with the pro plan. Obviously, business gets you a lot more. So, with three book credits, it comes out to like 70 bucks per book with the pro plan. If you don’t want to subscribe to the pro plan, which I understand, and that’s why we have the essentials plan, which is $48 at the moment with the discount. The discount will end very soon though. So, just heads up. If you want to secure this price, I recommend you jump on it uh soon. But with the essentials plan, you get everything, but you don’t get the book credit. So, if you want to buy the book credit separately, then it’ll be 150 bucks per book. So obviously it’s cheaper if you subscribe to the pro plan, but I understand a lot of people don’t like subscriptions. So we have both options there. So I just went off a little bit and talked about, you know, the paid subscription plan and the features. But once again, the main thing for this video is to show you the free Chrome extension. This is 100% free for everyone and we’re not changing that. So again, if you want to get this, the link is in the description below. The one thing I want to ask you guys is if you do download this and if you use it and if you like it, then I would really really appreciate it if you come back to this page and leave a review right here. Because the more positive reviews we get, the better the software does. And the better co-author does, the more we can reinvest back into the software, make it better, add more features, make the features better, you know, listen to your requests on what you want us to add, and overall just make it better for the users as well. So, it’s not just us trying to make money, right? Obviously, we want to make money doing this, but we do that by making the best software in the space and, you know, really making it good for the users as well. So, it should be a win-win. So, if you do decide to leave a review, thank you so much. I really appreciate it. And, uh, yeah, I hope you enjoy this free tool. So, thanks for watching and I’ll see you in the next one.